Level of Community Participation for Sustainable Forest Management in Bojonegoro Regency

A sustainable forest is a management for the process of forest preservation, so it can improve the production and services continuously, but does not reduce the function of the forest and does not cause environmental impact. This research aimed to analyze the level of community participation to manage sustainable forests in Bojonegoro Regency. The method used in this research was quantitative descriptive with the population sample was people of Bojonegoro Regency. The sampling technique used was purposive. Results indicate that the highest contribution score in the planning program is shown by the citizen power group (80%) and the tokenism group (56%) and the non-participation group (36%). In the monitoring and evaluation program, the citizen power group, achieve the highest score with 80% and 90%. Then the tokenism group is 60% and 50%, and the non-participation group has the lowest with 10% and 30%. It shows that the forest community development in Bojonegoro Regency was based on participatory and involved in forest development on the form of representation at various program stages such as planning, implementation, and monitoring evaluation. The community was also involved in the decision making of the development, so the community involvement in community forest development mostly was tokenism, and a small portion was in the form of citizen power and non-participation group.